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the confusion in nomenclature of certain members of this genus, which he at- 
tributes to one species, redescribed and renamed (p. 70) cojnosa, and to which 
he refers his own C. hypostigma, circumdata, notata, and lineata, Chloropisca 
oi'nata, Lw., Oscmis circumdata and notata, Zett., and (dubiously) CJilorops 
hypostigina, notata, cii-cumdata, and ornata, Meig., as synonyms. He recapi- 
tulates recorded instances of swarms of this insect, and refers generally to 
the difficulty of correctly determining members of the group. 
Phortica, ^chmev, =Amiota, Lw. : Loew, c. p. 112. 
Bhpharoptera sp. : larvae and pupae swarm in bat-excreta, in a cave of the 
Ariege : Abeille, Etud. Col. Cav. p. 12. 
Diplocentj-a, Lw.,= Cyrtonotum, Macq. {nec Steph.) : Loew, /. c. p. 112. 
Opetiophara^ g. n., id. I. c. p. 106. Chloropides. Agrees somewhat with 
Lipara, but with last abdominal segment of 5 prolonged into a horny subu- 
late terebra. O. strafninea, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 105, Texas. 
New species : — 
Tachina (Uxorista) phycitce (Le Baron, MS.), Riley, iv. Rep. Ins. Mo. 
p. 40, bred from Phycita nehulo, Walsh (Lep.). 
Gymnosoma Jiliola, Loew, /. c. p. 92, Texas. 
Blepharopeza adusta, id, ihid., California (from larvae of Spilosoma mrea). 
Anthomyia sonchi, p. 209, from Sonchus oleraceus, and A. jacohece, p. 254, 
from Senecio, Scotland : J. Hardy, Scot. Nat. i. 
Homalomyia tetracantha, Loew, I. c. p. 93, Middle States. 
Ccenosia nivea, calopyya, p. 95, Pennsylvania, modesta, p. 96, Washington : 
id. I. c. 
Schcenomyza dorsalis, id. I. c. p. 95, Columbia. 
Cordylura vitttpes, lutea, p. 96, Sitka, fulviharha, p. 97, Hudson's Bay Ter- 
ritory, capillata, p. 88, New Hampshire : id. I. c. 
Phytomyza hepaticce, Frauenfeld, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxii. p. 396, bred from 
Hepatica triloba, Vienna. 
Leucopis palumbii, Rondani, Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. p. 213, parasitic on Pem- 
phigus idriculariiis, Pass. {Aphid.), Italy. 
Sapromyza macula, Loew, I. c. p. 101, Texas. 
Lauxania eiicephala, id. ihid., Texas, 
Hippelates pusio, p, 103, eulophus, p. 104, id. I. c, Texas. 
Crassiseta eunota, id. /. c. p. 104, Texas. 
Chlorops (Centor) procera, p. 106, Connecticut, C. (Diplotoxa) gundlachi, 
Cuba, and conjluens, p. 107, microcera, pulchripes, p. 108, alternata, p, 109, 
nigricans, p. 110, C. (Anthracophaga) maculosa and Chlorops mellea, p. Ill, 
Texas : id. I. c. 
Siphonella latifrons, id. I. c. p. 106, Texas. 
Notiphila pulchrifrons, id. I. c. p. 102, Texas. 
Drosophila obesa, p. 102, sigmoides, p. 103, Texas : id. I. c. 
Sciomyza tenuipes, p. 99, Middle States, trabeculata, p. 100, Texas : id. I. c. 
Blepharoptera discolor, New Hampshire, pectinata, Texas : id. I. c. p. 99. 
CESTRID^. 
For observations on a fly developed in the skin of man at Senegal, termed 
" Ver de Cayor " by Berenger-Feraud, and wrongly referred to Ochromyia 
{anthropophaga, MS.) by Blanchard, cf. Guerin-M^neville, R. Z. (2) xxiii. 
p. 491. 
